Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Lady Fair

Here's something more cheerful than the disturbing illustration to my last post. I found a little treasure box at the recycling centre today. What secrets might it contain?

Jam packed full of vintage rick rack and seam binding. Bless the thrifty homemaker who discovered that the old toffee tin was the perfect size for packages of trim.

I once dated a guy who tried to lure me back to his place with promises of a whole box full of rickrack sitting in his basement. I almost went for it.

I love to imagine the story these old cards might tell. Was she calculating payments of some kind? Socking away some savings? Figuring out a budget? We'll never know.

Notice the package on the right. There is no longer an Eaton's - once Canada's premier chain of department stores. They had their own brand of household items, which included a whole range of sewing notions, "Lady Fair". Sigh... .takes me right back to my mother's sewing corner, with the old Viking machine set up on the table, and the lazy susan filled with spools of thread.

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I'm an artist who has been making stuff for 30 years. I used to spin, knit, weave, quilt, design, write, embroider and garden, and I still do most of these things, but for the last few years I have been focused on stitching images from Canada's first natural history, the Codex Canadensis.
I try to live a life of minimal consumption and maximum creation. More and more, I see how these are connected.